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Coming This Week – Google Chrome OS???

Looks like Santa(Google ) is gonna give us an early Christmas gift this year… If rumors are believed Google is set to release Chrome OS in the coming week.. The Chrome OS news comes courtesy of Techcrunch which cites that it was obtained from a reliable source. An early version of the OS was scheduled …
Microsoft Patents Sudo!!!

This news is unbelievable and quite confusing…. It appears that Microsoft would like everyone in the world to pay them a toll at least, even if they don’t want to use Microsoft’s software. It has just patented sudo, well its a personalized version of it. Apparently you can patent any command provided it is a …
Ubuntu 9.10 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7!!!

Apple let Snow Leopard out of its cage earlier this autumn, and Canonical will release another beast this week: Karmic Koala, otherwise known as the open-source operating system Ubuntu 9.10. This comes on the heels of Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7, a major update of Vista. So, there are a lot of reasons …
Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” (Review)!!!

A a new Ubuntu release definitely requires a post! Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” has been released. There have been some significant changes since that release in April, so read on to find out what they are and why you might want to consider upgrading to Ubuntu Linux 9.10.
How to Work with Bash History!!!

Although there are many shells available for Fedora, RedHat and its clones, such as tcsh, ksh, sh and the like, up until now bash still remains the default shell of choice. This does not come as a surprise because bash (which stands for Bourne Again Shell) has numerous lightning fast built-in commands that can manipulate …
How Does Ubuntu 9.04 Measure Up to Mac OS X???

Publication: Linux Magazine Bucking the historical trend of comparing desktop Linux with Windows, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently told journalist Bruce Byfield that he was looking to Mac OS X as the operating system to beat for future Ubuntu releases — particularly in the areas of usability and user experience. Now that Ubuntu 9.04 is …
Voice Chat on Ubuntu – Empathy!!!

Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia’s Mission Control, and reuses Gossip’s UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into …
When Debian Meets Enlightenment its “Elive”!!!

The Elive Linux distribution combines beauty with ease of use. Elive is based on Debian and uses Enlightenment X window manager instead of more memory intensive GNOME or KDE, which gives the distribution a Mac OS X look and feel. It’s the perfect choice for replacing your proprietary, high-cost system.Elive is a fully functional distribution …
Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code!!!

Publication: ZDNet This is the first time Microsoft has made Microsoft-developed code available directly to the Linux community. The Redmondians have released various pieces of code under different open-source licenses over the past few years, but this is the first time Microsoft has released Linux code. Microsoft made the Linux driver announcement on July 20, …
Android Live CD!!!

If you have been interested in checking out what Google Android is all about without downloading the SDK or buying a G-1, here is a great solution. Google Code has a project named live-android which provides you with a Live CD of Google Android. Just grab the ISO, burn it on a CD or try …

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